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75th Year No. 91 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, December 29, 1982 5 Sections 34 Pages 25 Cents
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UPI Telephoto
A Lincoln, Neb., woman and her two sons pick their steps carefully after a winter storm dumped 1 8 inches of snow on Nebraska
Blizzard bombards Midwest; travel paralyzed
United Proas International
A blizzard born in the Rockies roared
across the Midwest Tuesday, plastering the
region with up to 2 feet of snow and paralyz-ing
travel from Nebraska to Minnesota and
locking thousands in their homes.
Fifty mph winds blew snow back onto
roads as fast as plows cleared them. Thou-sands
of snowbound homes were without
power.
East of the blizzard front, winds warmed
from Illinois to New York state, and several
record highs were reported. The mercury
reached 65 degrees at Chicago, 62 at Fort
Wayne, Ind.; 64 at South Bend, Ind.; 63 de-grees
at Columbus, Ohio, and 68 degrees at
Louisville, Ky.
Rain fell across the Ohio Valley and from
Alabama through the Appalacians, prompt-ing
a flash flood watch for eastern Tennes-see.
Portions of northern and central California
were fogged in with visibility at Montague
near zero early in the day.
At least 31 deaths have been blamed on the
weather since the Christmas Eve blizzard
that bombarded Denver.
Travelers across Iowa, Nebraska, Minne-sota,
Colorado and South Dakota were
stranded at truck stops and airports as winds
whipped snow to zero visibility and drifted
four- fo- ot " walls of snow."
Officials declared snow emergencies in
Minneapolis and St. Paul, where 16 inches of
snow closed the airport, government offices,
many factories and businesses.
Medical heroics were the order of the day
in Minnesota. A doctor at Delano traveled
half a mile on skis to deliver a baby at a
snowbound house, and another hiked three
miles through a foot of snow to deliver four
babies at a St. Paul hospital.
More than 1,000 travelers remained holed
up in motels, schools and churches in Colora-do.
In Chicago, 80- m- ph wind gusts pitched six
steel beams 40 stories from a high rise under
construction on Michigan Avenue's " Magnif-icent
Mile" and threatened to topple a huge
crane perched atop. Two men were injured
by falling boards.
" These things are coming down like tooth-picks,"
said one policeman.
Winds whipped waves up to 15 feet on Lake
Michigan. At Chicago's O'Hare International
Airport, winds blew a passenger tunnel onto
a Continental jet, delaying a flight to Denv-er.
The storm dumped 21 inches of new snow
at Red Willow, Neb. About two- thir- ds of In-terstate
80 in Nebraska was closed, then re-opened
despite poor visibility and snow- packe- d
and icy roadways.
In Norfolk, snow drifts up to 10 feet tall
were reported.
About 300 motorists were retrieved from
the interstate around Lexington in trucks by
the Nebraska National Guard and housed in
an armory and churches.
In Lincoln, where 4,000 residents were
without electricity because of shorts in pow-er
lines, 4 inches of snow fell on top of a half- inc- h
of ice, snarling roads with stalled and
abandoned vehicles. All Nebraska govern-ment
workers were told to stay home and
many businesses were closed for the day.
In the Rochester, Minn., area, 6,000 rural
homes were without power because ice- coat- ed
lines collapsed. At least 1,000 homes
lost electrical power in southwestern Minne-sota.
Residents of Franklin, Minn., used pickup
trucks to rescue 35 passengers from a stalled
bus.
In Iowa, Interstate 29 was closed and high
winds toppled radio towers and snapped
phone lines. More than 17 inches of snow bur-ied
Sioux Falls, S. D.
" It's four- whe- el drive weather," a sher-iff's
dispatcher at Sioux City, Iowa, said.
Troopers said they had " walls of snow" to
clear.
Winds damage two Boonville frms
By Paula Nelson
Mlssourlan staff writer
Winds estimated at 50 mph by the National
Weather Service caused severe damage to
two farms west of Boonville Monday night.
Damage estimated at $ 12,000 was done to a
machinery shed, grain bin and home on Earl
Ginter's property. A machinery shed sus-tained
$ 3,500 in damages on Jim Stanaway's
property.
Ginter was at home when he received a
call about 7: 30 p. m. from the two tenants who
rent a house on his property west of town.
They told Ginter they thought a tornado had
struck the property.
Ginter found that the shed had caved in
and the roof had blown off. He believes that
when the roof of the shed blew off, it struck
the grain bin, causing the bin's roof to cave
in. The bin was full of soybeans.
" I was waiting to get a decent price," said
Ginter. " But now I'll have to sell. It would
cost too much to move them to new storage. "
Tenants at Ginter's wind- damag- ed rental
home were unharmed. A van in the shed sus-tained
some body damage.
Stanaway did not discover the damage on
his own property until he decided to drive to
the Ginter farm to help.
" You kind of get used to the wind rattlin'
when you live up here on a hill," said Stana-way.
The winds lifted three posts supporting
Stanaway's machinery shed out of the
ground and put them down an inch from the
holes. The shed was left standing, but the
roof was slightly buckled.
" The only thing that kept it from ripping
the whole roof off was a skylight that was
blown out. I think it let loose and relieved the
pressure inside. Without that skylight, I
think the whole building would have gone,"
said Stanaway.
Insurance covers the damage done on both
farms, except for the grain bin on the Ginter
farm.
Different ways to treat your doctor
By Collin Canright
Mlssourlan staff writer
To most people, decision- makin- g in medi-cine
is a mysterious process. Now, some doc-tors
are advocating that the process be
demystified.
" I think medicine is becoming less and
less paternalistic," says Dr. James Herman,
a fellow in family medicine at the University
School of Medicine.
" As people become more and more aware
of what's going on in their bodies, doctors
are becoming less and less able to say, ' Lis-ten,
I'm the doctor and you should do this.' "
As a result, he says, more physicians are
concerned about involving their patients in
the decision- makin- g process.
Doctor and patient relationships fall be-tween
two extremes when it comes to the deci-sion-
making process, says Dr. Harold Wi-lliamson,
a doctor specializing in family
medicine at the medical school.
At one end of the spectrum is the active
doctor and passive patient. Williamson char-acterizes
the active doctor as one who says:
" Look, I'm the doctor. You pay me to make
decisions. I decide what to do and that's
that."
The passive patient will say: " Don't ask
me what to do, that's why I come to the doc-tor.
I come here and pay you to tell me what
to do and I don't want to deal with it any-more."
Common in the past, Herman says this
sort of relationship is disappearing.
At the other extreme lies the passive doc-tor
and active patient.
Williamson characterizes this doctor as
saying: " I consider that you hire me, not to
tell you what to do, but to give you an opin-ion,
to tell you the diagnostic and treatment
See ACTIVE, Page 16A
Stephens to trim ' 83- 8- 4 budget 7
By JoEllen Lewis and Caren Crockett
Mfosourian staff writers- -
Administrators at Stephens College are
working this week on cuts that will equal
$ 425,000 of the college's $ 12 million budget
an almost 7 percent reduction, said Rick
Lane, vice president for business affairs.
The proposed cuts in the 1983- 8- 4 budget re-flect
an unexpected drop in enrollment, com-bined
wth higher operating costs and the ef-fects
of inflation.'
" There is a strong effort being put in by
administrators to identify ways to make es-sential
cuts without undermining our aca-demic
integrity," said Lane. " But the truth
of it is that there is only so much fat that can
be cut away before you get to the meat.
There is no more fat. We're going to have to
Several options being considered
start cutting the meat and that is when it be-comes
difficult."
Lane said that Dean Gene Schmidtlein vail
design a program to cut $ 125,000 from In-struction
and Academic Support. The rest of
the $ 700,000 will come from 10 other campus
divisions. President Arland F. Christ- Jan- er
called for the cuts in an Oct. 11 letter to the
faculty and staff.
Meetings have already begun and will con-tinue
through January. " We hope to have the
budget finished by January in order to pre-sent
the budget to the board of curators by
the second week in February," Lane said.
Lane said officials also are conducting an
impact study to determine the effects of the
proposed cuts.
Officials hope the cuts will balance the col-lege's
19831 budget. Anticipated expenses
for the current year put the college $ 630,000
over budget, but Lane said some cuts have
already been put in motion to trim that fig-ure.
'
" He ( Schmidtlein) already knows for sure
where some of the academic cuts will come
from, " Lane said. " With others there are
options. These have been presented to the
Stephens community for feedback. Then the
dean will make the final decision."
Options to balance next year's budget in- -
See DECLINING, Page 16A
Total lunar eclipse
visible early Thursday
NEW YORK ( AP) Volcanic ash
in the atmosphere could give the
moon a soft reddish glow early
Thursday as the moon begins a total
eclipse, the last to be visible across
the United States until 1989.
The moon will enter the Earth's
dark shadow Thursday at 3: 50 a. m.
CST, and the total eclipse will begin
at 4: 58 a. m. and end at 5: 29 a. m. The
eclipse, which will be visible across
the United States, is the third lunar
eclipse this year.
The next total lunar eclipse to be
visible from most of the United
States will occur on August 16, 1989.
A lunar eclipse will be visible from
California on April 24, 1986.
rtjuiuugti iw luuiK i iuuucii i ruin
the sun during an eclipse, it might be
dimly lit by light bouncing off dust
particles in the atmosphere.
Inside
Business 1 5A
Record 1 5A
Classified 6B
Comics 1 4A
Opinion 4A
People 1--
2B
Sports 12-- 1 3B
Shooting
touches off
Miami riot
1 death reported
MIAMI ( UPI i Hundreds of blacks, i- n--
raged
over the shooting of a black outh b
police poured into the streets of downtown
Miami Tuesday night, firing guns, hurling
firebombs and setting cars ablaze.
Hospital officials said one man was killed
and seven others were injured in the noting.
A doctor said the youth whose shooting
touched off the rioting was still alive after
undergoing surgery for a bullet wound to the
head. Reports circulated through the streets
that the vouth had died.
Officers investigating the shooting that
triggered the violence had to be iescued
from angry crowds. I, ootin was reported
and there were reports that officers were
fired upon with their own weapons.
Several hours after the violence bean in
the Overtown section on the north edge of
downtown Miami not- gear- ed police began
firing tear gas canisters into the crowds
estimated by one black leader to include as
many as 600 people.
The neighborhood is the same area where
race nots in 1980 left 18 people dead.
An officer manning an outpost on the pe-rimeter
of the area said at 10 p. m. " There's
nothing happening now."
At Jackson Memorial Hospital, Dr. Denniu
Doug said nine persons, including the outh
whose shooting triggered the incident, had
been rushed to the hospital.
He said the youth, identified as N'evill
" The Snake" Johnson Jr., was still alive fol-lowing
surgery, but would not divulge his
condition.
One man, he said, was dead of a gunshot
wound in the chest. Three others suffered
gunshot wounds, and four more including
a policeman had various other injuries
Hospital spokeswoman Betty Baderman
identified the dead man as Anthony McKen- zie- .
23. She would not reveal his race"
David L. Perkins, a leader of the Culmer- Overtow- n
Community Advisory Committee,
said five police cars were burned.
" They were throwing rocks and bottles
and shooting at white people," he said.
Young blacks were seen breaking into a gas
station and a gun ship at Northwest Fourth
and New River. Whites caught in the area
were holed up in buildings, calling police to
get them out.
There were reports rioters seized at least
two unmarked police cars, grabbed the
weapons inside and began shooting. At least
three cars and a truck were burning on the
streets.
Police spokesman Jack Sullivan said the
trouble began when two police officers went
into an arcade at about 7 p. m. to investigate
a report of a man with a gun.
" As they entered, they saw the man with a
gun in his pocket. He made a movement to-ward
his gun and was shot once in the head,"
Sullivan said.
When two homicide investigators arrived
later, the crowd " took exception" and held
them in the arcade, he said. He said more of-ficers
rushed in to free the investigators.
" The people in the area didn't like it," Sul-livan
said. " They started throwing bottles
and rocks."
Reports circulated that Johnson was dead
and that it was a policewoman who shot
him.
Jim Dimitrious, 36, said he, his wife. A-licia,
and son Mike, 10, were driving through
the Overton section " when two or three hun-dred
people swarmed into the street and be-gan
throwing rocks and bottles."
Missiles went through the open window of
his car, striking both Dimitrious and his wife.
Local union
seeks higher
wage offer
By Steve Levin
Missourian staff writer
Public Service Employees Local Union 45
is asking Boone County for an across- the- boa- rd
wage increase in 1983 of 75 cents an
hour. The county has countered by offering
51 cents an hour.
Bob Hagerty, public works director, will
make a recommendation on the offer to the
County Court Thursday. If the court agrees
to the union's proposal, it would become ef-fective
immediately. However, if the court
decides to stay with its offer, the union's
committee would have to meet again.
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh has hinted that
the county might stand firm. " We are not in
a bargaining position in regard to economic
issues," Freeh said.
The union's proposal would cost the county
an estimated $ 63,000.
Mitchell Bennett, union business manager,
says the increase would raise wages of the 30
employees of the Road and Bridge Depart-ment
to between $ 6.65 and $ 7.58 an hour.
The proposal is the third in a senes be-tween
the union and the Boone County Court.
In November, the union proposed a pay hike
of $ 1 an hour. Such a proposal would have
cost the county an estimated $ 84,000 in fiscal
1983. " We knew that figure was negotiable
though," explained Bennett.
As Bennett expected, in December the
court rejected the $ 1 increase.
The union's increase last year was 80 cents
an hour.

75th Year No. 91 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, December 29, 1982 5 Sections 34 Pages 25 Cents
,'.- - '-- -; i, ....... --.-
..- -, -- ..,- - -- .
-.
.-
-. j..
.-
-.
. . .
UPI Telephoto
A Lincoln, Neb., woman and her two sons pick their steps carefully after a winter storm dumped 1 8 inches of snow on Nebraska
Blizzard bombards Midwest; travel paralyzed
United Proas International
A blizzard born in the Rockies roared
across the Midwest Tuesday, plastering the
region with up to 2 feet of snow and paralyz-ing
travel from Nebraska to Minnesota and
locking thousands in their homes.
Fifty mph winds blew snow back onto
roads as fast as plows cleared them. Thou-sands
of snowbound homes were without
power.
East of the blizzard front, winds warmed
from Illinois to New York state, and several
record highs were reported. The mercury
reached 65 degrees at Chicago, 62 at Fort
Wayne, Ind.; 64 at South Bend, Ind.; 63 de-grees
at Columbus, Ohio, and 68 degrees at
Louisville, Ky.
Rain fell across the Ohio Valley and from
Alabama through the Appalacians, prompt-ing
a flash flood watch for eastern Tennes-see.
Portions of northern and central California
were fogged in with visibility at Montague
near zero early in the day.
At least 31 deaths have been blamed on the
weather since the Christmas Eve blizzard
that bombarded Denver.
Travelers across Iowa, Nebraska, Minne-sota,
Colorado and South Dakota were
stranded at truck stops and airports as winds
whipped snow to zero visibility and drifted
four- fo- ot " walls of snow."
Officials declared snow emergencies in
Minneapolis and St. Paul, where 16 inches of
snow closed the airport, government offices,
many factories and businesses.
Medical heroics were the order of the day
in Minnesota. A doctor at Delano traveled
half a mile on skis to deliver a baby at a
snowbound house, and another hiked three
miles through a foot of snow to deliver four
babies at a St. Paul hospital.
More than 1,000 travelers remained holed
up in motels, schools and churches in Colora-do.
In Chicago, 80- m- ph wind gusts pitched six
steel beams 40 stories from a high rise under
construction on Michigan Avenue's " Magnif-icent
Mile" and threatened to topple a huge
crane perched atop. Two men were injured
by falling boards.
" These things are coming down like tooth-picks,"
said one policeman.
Winds whipped waves up to 15 feet on Lake
Michigan. At Chicago's O'Hare International
Airport, winds blew a passenger tunnel onto
a Continental jet, delaying a flight to Denv-er.
The storm dumped 21 inches of new snow
at Red Willow, Neb. About two- thir- ds of In-terstate
80 in Nebraska was closed, then re-opened
despite poor visibility and snow- packe- d
and icy roadways.
In Norfolk, snow drifts up to 10 feet tall
were reported.
About 300 motorists were retrieved from
the interstate around Lexington in trucks by
the Nebraska National Guard and housed in
an armory and churches.
In Lincoln, where 4,000 residents were
without electricity because of shorts in pow-er
lines, 4 inches of snow fell on top of a half- inc- h
of ice, snarling roads with stalled and
abandoned vehicles. All Nebraska govern-ment
workers were told to stay home and
many businesses were closed for the day.
In the Rochester, Minn., area, 6,000 rural
homes were without power because ice- coat- ed
lines collapsed. At least 1,000 homes
lost electrical power in southwestern Minne-sota.
Residents of Franklin, Minn., used pickup
trucks to rescue 35 passengers from a stalled
bus.
In Iowa, Interstate 29 was closed and high
winds toppled radio towers and snapped
phone lines. More than 17 inches of snow bur-ied
Sioux Falls, S. D.
" It's four- whe- el drive weather," a sher-iff's
dispatcher at Sioux City, Iowa, said.
Troopers said they had " walls of snow" to
clear.
Winds damage two Boonville frms
By Paula Nelson
Mlssourlan staff writer
Winds estimated at 50 mph by the National
Weather Service caused severe damage to
two farms west of Boonville Monday night.
Damage estimated at $ 12,000 was done to a
machinery shed, grain bin and home on Earl
Ginter's property. A machinery shed sus-tained
$ 3,500 in damages on Jim Stanaway's
property.
Ginter was at home when he received a
call about 7: 30 p. m. from the two tenants who
rent a house on his property west of town.
They told Ginter they thought a tornado had
struck the property.
Ginter found that the shed had caved in
and the roof had blown off. He believes that
when the roof of the shed blew off, it struck
the grain bin, causing the bin's roof to cave
in. The bin was full of soybeans.
" I was waiting to get a decent price," said
Ginter. " But now I'll have to sell. It would
cost too much to move them to new storage. "
Tenants at Ginter's wind- damag- ed rental
home were unharmed. A van in the shed sus-tained
some body damage.
Stanaway did not discover the damage on
his own property until he decided to drive to
the Ginter farm to help.
" You kind of get used to the wind rattlin'
when you live up here on a hill," said Stana-way.
The winds lifted three posts supporting
Stanaway's machinery shed out of the
ground and put them down an inch from the
holes. The shed was left standing, but the
roof was slightly buckled.
" The only thing that kept it from ripping
the whole roof off was a skylight that was
blown out. I think it let loose and relieved the
pressure inside. Without that skylight, I
think the whole building would have gone,"
said Stanaway.
Insurance covers the damage done on both
farms, except for the grain bin on the Ginter
farm.
Different ways to treat your doctor
By Collin Canright
Mlssourlan staff writer
To most people, decision- makin- g in medi-cine
is a mysterious process. Now, some doc-tors
are advocating that the process be
demystified.
" I think medicine is becoming less and
less paternalistic," says Dr. James Herman,
a fellow in family medicine at the University
School of Medicine.
" As people become more and more aware
of what's going on in their bodies, doctors
are becoming less and less able to say, ' Lis-ten,
I'm the doctor and you should do this.' "
As a result, he says, more physicians are
concerned about involving their patients in
the decision- makin- g process.
Doctor and patient relationships fall be-tween
two extremes when it comes to the deci-sion-
making process, says Dr. Harold Wi-lliamson,
a doctor specializing in family
medicine at the medical school.
At one end of the spectrum is the active
doctor and passive patient. Williamson char-acterizes
the active doctor as one who says:
" Look, I'm the doctor. You pay me to make
decisions. I decide what to do and that's
that."
The passive patient will say: " Don't ask
me what to do, that's why I come to the doc-tor.
I come here and pay you to tell me what
to do and I don't want to deal with it any-more."
Common in the past, Herman says this
sort of relationship is disappearing.
At the other extreme lies the passive doc-tor
and active patient.
Williamson characterizes this doctor as
saying: " I consider that you hire me, not to
tell you what to do, but to give you an opin-ion,
to tell you the diagnostic and treatment
See ACTIVE, Page 16A
Stephens to trim ' 83- 8- 4 budget 7
By JoEllen Lewis and Caren Crockett
Mfosourian staff writers- -
Administrators at Stephens College are
working this week on cuts that will equal
$ 425,000 of the college's $ 12 million budget
an almost 7 percent reduction, said Rick
Lane, vice president for business affairs.
The proposed cuts in the 1983- 8- 4 budget re-flect
an unexpected drop in enrollment, com-bined
wth higher operating costs and the ef-fects
of inflation.'
" There is a strong effort being put in by
administrators to identify ways to make es-sential
cuts without undermining our aca-demic
integrity," said Lane. " But the truth
of it is that there is only so much fat that can
be cut away before you get to the meat.
There is no more fat. We're going to have to
Several options being considered
start cutting the meat and that is when it be-comes
difficult."
Lane said that Dean Gene Schmidtlein vail
design a program to cut $ 125,000 from In-struction
and Academic Support. The rest of
the $ 700,000 will come from 10 other campus
divisions. President Arland F. Christ- Jan- er
called for the cuts in an Oct. 11 letter to the
faculty and staff.
Meetings have already begun and will con-tinue
through January. " We hope to have the
budget finished by January in order to pre-sent
the budget to the board of curators by
the second week in February," Lane said.
Lane said officials also are conducting an
impact study to determine the effects of the
proposed cuts.
Officials hope the cuts will balance the col-lege's
19831 budget. Anticipated expenses
for the current year put the college $ 630,000
over budget, but Lane said some cuts have
already been put in motion to trim that fig-ure.
'
" He ( Schmidtlein) already knows for sure
where some of the academic cuts will come
from, " Lane said. " With others there are
options. These have been presented to the
Stephens community for feedback. Then the
dean will make the final decision."
Options to balance next year's budget in- -
See DECLINING, Page 16A
Total lunar eclipse
visible early Thursday
NEW YORK ( AP) Volcanic ash
in the atmosphere could give the
moon a soft reddish glow early
Thursday as the moon begins a total
eclipse, the last to be visible across
the United States until 1989.
The moon will enter the Earth's
dark shadow Thursday at 3: 50 a. m.
CST, and the total eclipse will begin
at 4: 58 a. m. and end at 5: 29 a. m. The
eclipse, which will be visible across
the United States, is the third lunar
eclipse this year.
The next total lunar eclipse to be
visible from most of the United
States will occur on August 16, 1989.
A lunar eclipse will be visible from
California on April 24, 1986.
rtjuiuugti iw luuiK i iuuucii i ruin
the sun during an eclipse, it might be
dimly lit by light bouncing off dust
particles in the atmosphere.
Inside
Business 1 5A
Record 1 5A
Classified 6B
Comics 1 4A
Opinion 4A
People 1--
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Sports 12-- 1 3B
Shooting
touches off
Miami riot
1 death reported
MIAMI ( UPI i Hundreds of blacks, i- n--
raged
over the shooting of a black outh b
police poured into the streets of downtown
Miami Tuesday night, firing guns, hurling
firebombs and setting cars ablaze.
Hospital officials said one man was killed
and seven others were injured in the noting.
A doctor said the youth whose shooting
touched off the rioting was still alive after
undergoing surgery for a bullet wound to the
head. Reports circulated through the streets
that the vouth had died.
Officers investigating the shooting that
triggered the violence had to be iescued
from angry crowds. I, ootin was reported
and there were reports that officers were
fired upon with their own weapons.
Several hours after the violence bean in
the Overtown section on the north edge of
downtown Miami not- gear- ed police began
firing tear gas canisters into the crowds
estimated by one black leader to include as
many as 600 people.
The neighborhood is the same area where
race nots in 1980 left 18 people dead.
An officer manning an outpost on the pe-rimeter
of the area said at 10 p. m. " There's
nothing happening now."
At Jackson Memorial Hospital, Dr. Denniu
Doug said nine persons, including the outh
whose shooting triggered the incident, had
been rushed to the hospital.
He said the youth, identified as N'evill
" The Snake" Johnson Jr., was still alive fol-lowing
surgery, but would not divulge his
condition.
One man, he said, was dead of a gunshot
wound in the chest. Three others suffered
gunshot wounds, and four more including
a policeman had various other injuries
Hospital spokeswoman Betty Baderman
identified the dead man as Anthony McKen- zie- .
23. She would not reveal his race"
David L. Perkins, a leader of the Culmer- Overtow- n
Community Advisory Committee,
said five police cars were burned.
" They were throwing rocks and bottles
and shooting at white people," he said.
Young blacks were seen breaking into a gas
station and a gun ship at Northwest Fourth
and New River. Whites caught in the area
were holed up in buildings, calling police to
get them out.
There were reports rioters seized at least
two unmarked police cars, grabbed the
weapons inside and began shooting. At least
three cars and a truck were burning on the
streets.
Police spokesman Jack Sullivan said the
trouble began when two police officers went
into an arcade at about 7 p. m. to investigate
a report of a man with a gun.
" As they entered, they saw the man with a
gun in his pocket. He made a movement to-ward
his gun and was shot once in the head,"
Sullivan said.
When two homicide investigators arrived
later, the crowd " took exception" and held
them in the arcade, he said. He said more of-ficers
rushed in to free the investigators.
" The people in the area didn't like it," Sul-livan
said. " They started throwing bottles
and rocks."
Reports circulated that Johnson was dead
and that it was a policewoman who shot
him.
Jim Dimitrious, 36, said he, his wife. A-licia,
and son Mike, 10, were driving through
the Overton section " when two or three hun-dred
people swarmed into the street and be-gan
throwing rocks and bottles."
Missiles went through the open window of
his car, striking both Dimitrious and his wife.
Local union
seeks higher
wage offer
By Steve Levin
Missourian staff writer
Public Service Employees Local Union 45
is asking Boone County for an across- the- boa- rd
wage increase in 1983 of 75 cents an
hour. The county has countered by offering
51 cents an hour.
Bob Hagerty, public works director, will
make a recommendation on the offer to the
County Court Thursday. If the court agrees
to the union's proposal, it would become ef-fective
immediately. However, if the court
decides to stay with its offer, the union's
committee would have to meet again.
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh has hinted that
the county might stand firm. " We are not in
a bargaining position in regard to economic
issues," Freeh said.
The union's proposal would cost the county
an estimated $ 63,000.
Mitchell Bennett, union business manager,
says the increase would raise wages of the 30
employees of the Road and Bridge Depart-ment
to between $ 6.65 and $ 7.58 an hour.
The proposal is the third in a senes be-tween
the union and the Boone County Court.
In November, the union proposed a pay hike
of $ 1 an hour. Such a proposal would have
cost the county an estimated $ 84,000 in fiscal
1983. " We knew that figure was negotiable
though," explained Bennett.
As Bennett expected, in December the
court rejected the $ 1 increase.
The union's increase last year was 80 cents
an hour.